On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:58 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply :) > > I was planning to use the "bytes" Proto-Type from the proto3 language > specification (see here: https://developers.google.com/ > protocol-buffers/docs/proto3). > It seems to be suited to transfer binary blobs. > > However in the Techniques section of the ProtocolBuffers documentation ( > https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/techniques) it is > mentioned, that "Protocol Buffers are not designed to handle large > messages." without any further explanation. So I wonder if this also > applies for "bytes"-typed message fields. > Using a bytes field of 100MB is fine. That satement "Protocol Buffers are not designed to handle large messages." is more or less obsolete now because we see many people sending protos as large as 2GB and they are supported.
> > > On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 1:20:26 PM UTC+1, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> On 11.01.2018 13:13, [email protected] wrote: >> > Hi, >> > How do Protocol Buffers (C++) perform when messages contain big binary >> blobs? With big I mean 1 ... 100MByte. >> >> My impression was that its not very suitable for that. Its a while >> ago that I checked but there was no plain binary encoding back then. >> To send binary files, I encoded them in some ASCII encoding (Base64 >> I think) and sent them as strings. The encoding takes some CPU, and >> the data size goes up. >> >> I'd be happy to learn otherwise?! And possibly things have changed in >> the meantime... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Mario Emmenlauer >> >> >> -- >> BioDataAnalysis GmbH, Mario Emmenlauer Tel. Buero: +49-89-74677203 >> <+49%2089%2074677203> >> Balanstr. 43 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=Balanstr.+43&entry=gmail&source=g> >> mailto: memmenlauer * biodataanalysis.de >> D-81669 München http://www.biodataanalysis.de/ >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
